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Samuel Ruel, Pocket watch with enamel dial and undecorated silver exterior, pocket watch watch movement measuring instrument steel brass silver glass enamel, cabinet 5.9 Dial White enamel with Roman numerals for the hours and Arabic numerals for the minutes. The minute band with so-called 'Dutch bows'. Damage to the underside. Possibly 'redialling' (replaced silver champlevé dial). Openwork brass hands The clockwork with ongoing work with spindle with snek Four openwork angular balustere pillars. Openwork gilded brass holder for the beak of the snek with blued steel spring with ornamented foot. Steel spring for the lock case with ornamented base. The back plate of gilded brass engraved with an openwork ornament for mounting the so-called compass silvered disc engraved with the numbers 1 to 5. This is mounted on square pin and serves for the regulage. Under the spring drum worm with two square ends (basic spring tension). Silver gap with relatively large openwork foot. The gap provided with an outstretched representation of Bacchus on wine barrel and centaur In the lower half of the chasm, kidney-shaped opening containing small pendulum (the visible part of the balance) with blued steel grooved lens. Also some windings of the balance spring are visible. In the center of the gorge pointed steel pointer. The engraved signature above the gorge. The whole in smooth silver case with pendant and smooth silver exterior cupboard SAMUEL RUEL ROTTERDAM 49 unclear silver mark in inside cupboard measuring time well-to-do citizens. (Photo by: Sepia Times/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)